Most socio-economically advantaged suburbs in Western Australia
The 25 suburbs in Western Australia with the highest Suburb Score— our transparent 0–100 measure of socio-economic advantage, derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' SEIFA index of the 2021 Census. Higher means more advantaged on the ABS's own composite of income, education and occupation.
This ranks suburbs purely on a socio-economic measure from ABS Census data. It is not a measure of how good a suburb is to live in or visit — advantage is not the same as livability, character or value. How we calculate the Suburb Score.
- 1DalkeithSuburb Score 99 · SEIFA 1192 · 4,398 residents
- 2City BeachSuburb Score 99 · SEIFA 1172 · 6,805 residents
- 3FloreatSuburb Score 99 · SEIFA 1170 · 8,621 residents
- 4Peppermint GroveSuburb Score 99 · SEIFA 1161 · 1,597 residents
- 5CottesloeSuburb Score 99 · SEIFA 1160 · 7,750 residents
- 6SwanbourneSuburb Score 99 · SEIFA 1158 · 4,592 residents
- 7NedlandsSuburb Score 99 · SEIFA 1152 · 10,561 residents
- 8Burns BeachSuburb Score 99 · SEIFA 1144 · 4,071 residents
- 9Mount ClaremontSuburb Score 99 · SEIFA 1143 · 4,999 residents
- 10CoolbiniaSuburb Score 98 · SEIFA 1139 · 1,751 residents
- 11TriggSuburb Score 98 · SEIFA 1139 · 2,855 residents
- 12Kings Park (WA)Suburb Score 98 · SEIFA 1138 · 48 residents
- 13Wembley DownsSuburb Score 98 · SEIFA 1136 · 6,743 residents
- 14West LeedervilleSuburb Score 98 · SEIFA 1130 · 4,340 residents
- 15ApplecrossSuburb Score 98 · SEIFA 1128 · 7,228 residents
- 16Salter PointSuburb Score 98 · SEIFA 1128 · 2,913 residents
- 17Mount Pleasant (WA)Suburb Score 98 · SEIFA 1127 · 7,456 residents
- 18Shenton ParkSuburb Score 98 · SEIFA 1126 · 4,638 residents
- 19SubiacoSuburb Score 98 · SEIFA 1125 · 9,940 residents
- 20Iluka (WA)Suburb Score 97 · SEIFA 1124 · 5,669 residents
- 21ChurchlandsSuburb Score 97 · SEIFA 1123 · 3,638 residents
- 22North CoogeeSuburb Score 97 · SEIFA 1123 · 3,741 residents
- 23GwelupSuburb Score 97 · SEIFA 1122 · 5,391 residents
- 24Mount HawthornSuburb Score 97 · SEIFA 1121 · 8,183 residents
- 25AttadaleSuburb Score 97 · SEIFA 1119 · 6,638 residents
Suburbs with no ABS SEIFA score (some very small or unpopulated localities) are not ranked. Where suburbs share an identical SEIFA score they share a Suburb Score. The Suburb Score is always a national percentile, so a state list shows how its top suburbs sit against the whole country — not just against each other.